Operating systems
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Operating systems
Smart cardsTechnology & Cybersecurity

Authors : Jean-Pierre TUAL, Stéphane GRELLIER, Joseph LEIBENGUTH, Philippe PROUST

Publication date: December 10, 2019 | Lire en français

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5. Operating systems

5.1 Overview and basic mechanisms

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5.1.1 Features

The term Operating System (OS) has come into common usage to designate the control software on a microcomputer board, which interprets and executes the various elementary commands that the board can carry out. Located in the persistent memory part of the microcomputer (ROM, EEPROM or FLASH), it is implemented for the ROM in one of the masks used to manufacture the integrated circuit. Thus, by misuse of language, the notions of OS and mask are commonly confused....

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